On November 1, speaking at a meeting of the public council for the publication of the Orthodox Encyclopedia, Minister of Science and Education Andrey Fursenko said that the ministry was ready to include the Church History Bulletin in the number of specialized publications, the publication of which is taken into account in the preparation of scientific works.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, speaking at a meeting of the public council for the publication of the "Orthodox Encyclopedia", said that the city authorities intend to increase the volume of purchases of this book from 2 to 2.5 thousand copies of alphabetical volumes.

On October 30, 2007, in Moscow, in an independent press center, a presentation of the book by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Independent Institute of Communication Studies Iosif Dzyaloshinsky "Russian Media: How the Image of the Enemy is Created" was held. The author of the book tried to define the role of journalists in the formation of attitudes of tolerance. According to I.

Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill (Gundyaev) announced the need to teach the basics of religious culture as part of the compulsory school curriculum. "The Russian Orthodox Church has never insisted that only one religious culture be taught in schools.

The Commission of the Public Chamber on Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience has developed a manual "Religion and Law and Order in Russia" for police officers. The manual tells about the basics, main holidays and customs of Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism and how a policeman should treat the followers of these religions. The memo contains the phone numbers and addresses of religious institutions, it says how to address the clergy and in what clothes you can enter the temple.

On November 2, 2007, the court of Kondopoga (Karelia) passed a verdict in the case of participants in mass riots in September 2006. 12 defendants were found guilty of pogroms of private and municipal property on September 2, 2006 and convicted under Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code Russian Federation (participation in mass riots, accompanied by pogroms and arson of property) for 3 years of suspended imprisonment.

October 27, 2007 in Izhevsk, a hardcore concert was disrupted in the club: Integral-Punk;. Almost before the concert, a message was received that the club was mined. After that, all the spectators were taken out of the premises, and the club was examined by sappers. Despite the fact that the bomb was not found, the concert never took place. The organizers of the concert believe that: false alarm; - the work of local neo-Nazis.

Oktyabrsky District Court of Stavropol invalidated the decision and.about. the head of Stavropol on granting the land of the Assumption cemetery to the Stavropol diocese. A civil suit to invalidate this decision was filed by the prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory.

We are publishing a list of organizations recognized as extremist by Russian courts since 2002, of which the SOVA Center is aware. For the first time, the official list of these organizations was published on the official website of the Federal Registration Service of Russia in early April 2008. Participation in the activities of organizations recognized by court decisions as extremist and terrorist under Russian law is a criminal offense and is prosecuted in accordance with Art.

The congress of Jehovah's Witnesses in Novodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region, was scheduled for October 26-27, but a few days before that, the administration of the DK "Druzhba" refused to rent the premises to the Witnesses, citing current repairs of the premises. On October 27, activists from one of the "anti-sectarian" organizations hung leaflets around the city about the "danger" of Jehovah's Witnesses and the New Generation Pentecostal Church.

On October 31, a picket was held in front of the Komintern Palace of Culture in Voronezh against the seminars held by the training center of the Planet of Success movement. The participants of the action urged those going to classes to think about whether the "Planet of Success" is a "sect".